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The very idea of talking love-nonsense in a public garden when all Europe was threatened with calamity! Repelling the audacious hand, Marguerite spoke tranquilly of her existence during the last months.
"I have passed my life the best I could, but I have been greatly bored.
You know that I am now living with mama, and mama is a lady of the old regime who does not understand our tastes.

I have been to the theatres with my brother.

I have made many calls on the lawyer in order to learn the progress of my divorce and hurry it along.

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